July 3rd, 2010, 10:00 am
Welna Hardware
10:00 Introduction:
· Approval of Agenda
· agenda
approved
· Minutes from EPIC
Board Meeting 6/5/2010
minutes approved
· Attendance: Carol, Mary, Earl, Linda, Hannah
· Absent: Rosie, Mohammed, Jennie, Tim
10:10 Announcements
· EPIC General Membership Meeting, July 12th
· Parade of gardens: East Phillips showcases
our garden, August 21st, Saturday, 10:00 am
· Hazardous Waste Pick-Up, July 24th,
9:00 am to 1:00 pm, Stuff goes to
Phillips Community Center Lot
10:15 East Phillips Park Cultural
& Community Center Situation: Brad
· Pollution Issue –
What happened??
Grants were obtained from the
County and State for funding to get rid of asbestos, Brad wrote grants. Carol worked with Rep. Clark
and Sen. Berglin make this happen. Lobbying the State Auditor was necessary
to override Pawlenty’s objections.
· Kitchen
furnishings still not funded including the range hood, the fire suppression
system, and makeup air
system, nor rain gardens.
NRP
Dollars – Toward the building??
EPIC will receive another $50,000 from NRP, should we spend it on
the kitchen? Board recommends this
go on agenda for general membership to propose NRP money for
kitchen.
Motion: Board will bring up
using NRP money for kitchen at next general membership meeting
LL,
ES. Passed unanimously
· Costs appear to be
going up a lot with each change order, should we talk to park board?
Board
will write a letter to park board asking to see Rochon contract change clause
and ask park board to enforce
original bid.
Mary
will edit letter, use terms we accepted your offer in “good faith”,
· Partnership
Agreements??
21
organizations signed up to provide programming. Park board doesn't have money to put in programming. Of 21 partners, 14 or 15 submitted to
park staff, MPRB will show what they are anticipating
for programming to create scheduling, this partnership agreement could be the
wave of the future
with MPRB and communities, cut down expenses, increase programming, increase
volunteerism
10:30 Phillips Community Center:
·
Issues with the RFP and Waite House
The
final Waite House proposal differs significantly from the one supported by EPIC
at our June 14th
Community meeting. It also differs from the Guiding Principles based by
the Board and General Membership meeting of neighborhoods have been cut out of
decision-making and control, this is not the agreement that EPIC supported.
Sub-leasers don't have power, Waite house has pulled out of collaboration and
are going to present
own proposal to the Park Board. Neighborhoods (the three) have gotten together
and created a new
draft, position paper with proposal included.
Motion: EPIC board
rejects the Waite House proposal draft 2 and the master lease concept in favor
of the original collaborative proposal of a partnership with the neighborhoods,
park board csa, a wellness collaborative, and the Waite House as passed at the
June 5th EPIC Board meeting and the June 14th EPIC Community Meeting
of June 14th. CP, ES Passed unanimously.
Motion: Position paper
plus proposal, changed to restore operation of pool in its entirety, the rest
of the proposal will be tweaked.
LL, ES Passed unanimously.
Saving
the Pool Progress
10:50 2600 17th Ave Proposed
Apartment Building, Other Developments
·
Other possible building arrangement, zoning and
funding issues. Francisco
· Apartment at 2908 16th,
NSP funding issues
·
Foreclosed buildings?
Motion: Since EPIC
supports consistency with the city's recent new zoning rulings supporting R2b
in the internal core of the neighborhood and higher density on our corridors, the
EPIC Board unanimously opposes any plan that violates the R2b zoning for the
interior core of the East Phillips neighborhood. Therefore EPIC opposes the
plan for the Alliance 20 unit 3-story apartment building at 2600-2606 17th
Ave. S. LL, ES. passed unanimously.
Neighbors are
requesting faster and more thorough action on foreclosed properties to try to
stop rapid purchase and sloppy partial rehab or non-rehab by unscrupulous
landlords or purchase and resale of carelessly rehabbed houses by real estate
agents. This has a negative impact on the future housing viability of the
neighborhood.
Motion: The EPIC Board
supports the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, NSP, funding to be made available
to both City-approved non-profit and for-profit groups seeking to restore
foreclosed properties. Linda,
earl passed unanimous
11:10 Xcel Energy's High Voltage
Transmission Line Routes &
Substations:
· Negotiated Settlement: in progress
· 100,000 for Solar on EP Park Center roof ? Roof will not support, may it be put
on the side? EPIC needs to research this.
11: 15 Report on MPCA’s
mini-conference on: Cumulative Levels and Effects for Air Permits
Paint Sprayer Building
The MPCA has been requested to do the
Cumulative Impact Study required by the Clark/Berglin Law. The Met. Council is
apparently suing to be allowed to put their paint spraying facility in the
half-mile radius disallowed in the law. EPIC has a fear that, if the study is
completed, the law will cease to stop additional polluting facilities from
coming into the Phillips neighborhood. The EPIC Board believes that, if a
facility adds additional pollution to the air of Phillips, which when added to
the existing level of pollution, reaches beyond the toxic level, the current
law, as it is, will fail to stop the permitting of that new facility, since all
that is required is that the Cumulative Impact Study is completed, not that
there be any greater stringency on the level of pollution that is permitable.
This needs resolution.
Motion: The EPIC Board will
request that Representative Clark and Senator Berglund to amend their law to
state that if the existing cumulative level of pollution plus the new
additional pollution of a new facility will raise a pollutant to a toxic level,
the facility cannot be permitted. This includes additional micro-particles of
2.5 and smaller. CP, ES, Passed unanimously.
11: 20 Stewart
Park and other Soccer Fields: EPIC Board requests that the new soccer
fields not be administered
in such a way that they lock out the neighborhood children from playing on
them..
11: 30 Adjournment
